Schooling and Work in the Democratic State

by Martin Carnoy; Henry Levin

• ISBN13: 9780804712422
• ISBN10: 0804712425
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1985-06-01
• Publisher: Stanford University Press

Summary

A new explanation of the relation between schooling and work in the democratic, advanced industrial state emerges from this study that rejects both traditional views and the more recent Marxian perspective. Traditional views consider schools as autonomous institutions that are able to pursue the goals of equality and social mobility irrespective of the inequalities of capitalist society; the Marxian perspective views schools as serving the role of producing wage-labor for capitalistic exploitation.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Historical Traditions and a New Approach	p. 7
Education and Theories of the State	p. 26
Education and the Changing American Workplace	p. 52
Social Conflict and the Structure of Education	p. 76
Reproduction and the Practices of Schooling	p. 110
Contradiction in Education	p. 144
Reforms in the Workplace	p. 177
Predicting Educational Reforms	p. 215
The Potential and Limits of School Struggles	p. 247
References Cited	p. 271
Index	p. 299
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